Application Engine and Command Line

More often than not I had situations where I needed to literally step
through the application engine looking at the sections

More often than not I had situations where I needed to literally step
through the application engine looking at the sections and steps that got
executed under different conditions just to confirm if the logic applied to
build the Application Engine (AE) was right or wrong.

So here are the steps and parameters I use to do just.

First, you need to set PSAE.exe which actually initiates your AE in your
environment variables. I am assuming you are using Windows XP.

How would you set the path to point to the folder which houses PSAE?

1. Right Click on My Computer on your desktop and then click on
Properties.

2. Click on the Advanced tab.

3. Click on Environment Variables.

4. Under System Variables look for Path.

5. Double Click that entry and append (I said append not overwrite) the
folder path which has PSAE. On my system I had the executable under "
C:\PT8.46\bin\client\winx86 ".

Now that you have everything setup to debug your application engine open the
command prompt.